MSF - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- Executive Director of Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders ( MSF ) UK in October 2022, Succeeding Vickie Hawkins.
- UK 's Executive Director
Emery joined the MSF UK Board in May 2022. Prior to joining MSF, Emery had worked with national and international organisations as well as the public and private sectors in the UK and other countries.
His experience ranges from working as a researcher for the United Nations' International Labour Organization (ILO) to managing projects in international organisations. In the UK his work focused on Community Inclusion, Refugee Integration and Equality and diversity in public and charity sector. He currently works with International Rescue Committee UK as the head of programmes.
Emery holds a Master's in International Relations and Globalisation with a specialisation in relations between countries and international organisations, as well as an MBA with a specialisation in leadership.
Job Titles:
- Senior Press Officer
- Features and Documentaries Manager
Job Titles:
- Co - Opted 2021
- Member of the MSF East Africa Board
Eve is a retired Irish American plastic surgeon living in County Kerry, Ireland for the last 13 years. Her medical training was in the United States, and she is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and Board certified in both general and plastic surgery. She has worked for MSF since 2015 taking her to places such as Gaza, Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Jordan.
Eve is a member of the MSF East Africa Board and also chairs the MSF Ireland Board. She was co-opted to the UK Board in order to provide an Associative link with the Irish Branch Office.
Iesha joins the Board as a senior humanitarian consultant. She has worked across many major emergencies in Africa, Asia and the Middle East across most sectors with various NGOs, donor agencies and the UN. Iesha has worked in different capacities from leadership, management and coordination, through policy and advocacy, to operational research and evaluations.
She is particularly interested in issues of protection, remote programming and change management.
Iesha worked for MSF OCA between 2004-2008, with shorter stints for OCG, OCBA and OCB.
Innocent Muleya is a Sessional GP with a special interest in women's health working under the Cwm Taf Morgannwg university health board and Cardiff and Vale university health board. He was born in Zimbabwe, where he started his career as a biomedical scientist before training to be a medical doctor.
Innocent is a Chevening scholar with an MSc in Tropical Medicine and International Health from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He has worked in the NHS and private sector as a junior doctor before his current specialism in primary care as a General Practitioner in Cardiff, where he lives.
Innocent gained leadership experience running a district hospital in the western part of Zambia before he joined MSF. Working with MSF, he has completed two field assignments, as a medical doctor between 2014 and 2015. His first assignment was in Bo, Sierra Leone, responding to the Ebola outbreak. Innocent then provided care to MSF HIV and TB patients in Lesotho.
Job Titles:
- Director of Communications
Sam Taylor, Director of Communications
Overall responsibility for all communications emanating from the UK office.
Email: sam.taylor@london.msf.org
Sophie joins the Board from Kenya where she specializes in the management of health systems. Sophie has worked across Africa and in Nepal having been out of the UK for 18 years, most recently holding the post as Country Director for MSI Reproductive Choices. Her time with MSF was spent in Haiti and Democratic Republic of Congo where she realised a real passion for the work and principles of MSF.
Sophie specialises in senior management; HR, finance, operations, and governance particularly but with a real passion for offering quality healthcare services to vulnerable groups, especially women and children.
Tariq joined the Board from Oxford where he has worked as a consultant children's anaesthetist for over 20 years. He enjoys leadership and has been Head of Department in anaesthetics and children's intensive care, both in Oxford and abroad.
Tariq originally worked for MSF during the Rwandan conflict in 1994 and has continued to work in a variety of locations in Africa and South America. He loves to cook, play sports and look after patients.
Job Titles:
- Security Consultant
- Treasurer
Tim is a security consultant, specialising in the prevention of fraud and financial crime, and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Kings College London. He is a trustee of a local hospice as well as the UK domestic abuse charity SafeLives.
Tim spent the majority of his career in the UK Civil Service where he held senior leadership roles in the Ministry of Defence, the Department for Transport and the National Crime Agency. After leaving government service he worked for Lloyds Bank, leading their intelligence work for the prevention of fraud and financial crime.